Peters Atlas
The Peters Atlas was published in 1989 by the historian Arno Peters . According to Peters, he developed a new type of representation of maps that made it possible to achieve an allegedly largely distortion-free projection of the surfaces of the earth - the Peters projection . All maps contained in the atlas have the same area scale , which should simplify the direct size comparison of different regions or states. According to Peters, this perspective gives the continents their “true dimension” and the projection counteracts the “Eurocentric way of thinking”.
New edition
In 2010 a new version was published by Ullmann Verlag. It contains 42 main and 212 theme cards. The main maps show all continents of the world in the same proportions. The theme cards always show a certain number of world maps on a double page that are specialized on a theme (e.g. number of soldiers in each country).
literature
- Arno Peters: Peters Atlas. Academic Publishing House 1990, ISBN 3-905019-02-7